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Code Rush - Mozilla documentary (PCR | Click Movement)

2009 Jul 10, 7:37"Code Rush aired nationally on PBS in March 2000. It documents the Mozilla team as they struggle to publish the first open source release of the Netscape Browser."PermalinkCommentsvideo mozilla browser browser-war internet opensource documentary free download web technical

Browser Versions Over Time

2009 May 23, 4:45

In honor of Google Chrome's recent v2 release and because I read they don't make too big a deal about version numbers, I thought to create a graph of browser major version numbers over time.

Yeah that's not too useful of a graph. I got the release dates from Wikipedia of course.

As you can see from the graph, Netscape and Opera are leading all other browsers in terms of major version number. The other browsers really need to get on that.

PermalinkCommentsbrowser technical boring google ie graph

Proxy Client Autoconfig File Format

2009 Feb 5, 8:47Copy of the Netscape Navigator document (the original's long gone) describing the Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) file format and mime-type. Its a javascript file with at least one well known function that, given a host, returns a string describing which methods are appropriate for a web browser to connect to that host.PermalinkCommentsjavascript pac proxy http reference netscape navigator

An Exploration of Dynamic Documents

2007 Sep 4, 6:57Netscape's documentation on the non-standard HTTP refresh header.PermalinkCommentsrefresh http http-header netscape reference

Microsoft Pulls Prank / Company takes browser war to Netscape's lawn

2006 Oct 27, 1:51PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft netscape history prank internet ie mozilla browser-war article

Client Side State - HTTP Cookies

2005 Mar 28, 10:46Netscape's definition of cookiesPermalinkCommentscookie reference development http internet specification
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